Don Booker

  • 2.3Overall Quality
  • 2.6Helpfulness
  • 2.1Clarity
  • 3.1Easiness

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Class
Rating
Comment
5/9/13

IS 620

Good Quality

Easiness3

Helpfulness4

Clarity4

Rater Interest4

His required work is not difficult, however you cannot slack, rather its quality over quantity. 8-short papers is perfect without driving a student too crazy with work. If each 3-4 page paper you give rocks, is well done with ref. he give you an A every time! He refers to the concepts in the books and likes when students gives thoughtful opinions.

8/2/09

IS661

Average Quality

Easiness3

Helpfulness3

Clarity2

Rater Interest3

Good teacher, mumbles a lot, need a hearing aid to listen to him. boring class, knowledgeable though, good class if you pay attention.

5/25/09

IS637

Good Quality

Easiness2

Helpfulness5

Clarity3

Rater Interest4

He is a great professor and very knowledgeable. You could learn a lot in his class ONLY when you were able to keep yourself awake throughout a class. He is old, therefore; students should expect an learning environment that need more concentration from self. If you do homework seriously, read books and really taking notes. You will be fine.

8/6/08

IS637

Average Quality

Easiness5

Helpfulness5

Clarity1

Rater Interest1

very nice professor!

3/15/08

is639

Good Quality

Easiness5

Helpfulness5

Clarity4

Rater Interest3

Don Booker is a great Professor. Well yea he is a boring professor for those who do not pay attentions or you might not liberal enough to understand his lecture. We have to understand that this is not a high school nor bachelors, so therefore i can't complain about it. I enjoy being in his class because i am learning. He is very talented.

12/26/07

IS639

Poor Quality

Easiness5

Helpfulness2

Clarity2

Rater Interest3

A nice professor, but absent minded at times. Difficult to fail if you know what you're doing and write a good paper. Test's are full of grammatical and spelling errors. Will talk for the entire class without a break, often about irrelevant unrelated topics. You have to ask him what you need to do because the syllabus won't tell you.

10/29/07

IS637

Poor Quality

Easiness3

Helpfulness1

Clarity1

Rater Interest1

Prof Don Booker is the most boring, absent-minded lecturer I've met at Pace.

12/14/06

IS652

Good Quality

Easiness5

Helpfulness5

Clarity5

Rater Interest5

Don't worry about what others may say. This is an excellent professor. One paper, mid-term & final exam all true and false.

12/30/05

IS 637

Good Quality

Easiness5

Helpfulness5

Clarity5

Rater Interest5

I was scared of taking the class after I read the bad reviews here. My view: he is a kind professor with a kind heart. His syllabus is mean, but he is not. He gives hints for exams reading. 2 exams, 1 paper. Easy jobs. He always tries to understand students. His only requirement: Following Booker's Exam Guideline. Make that, a guarantee A.

10/22/05

IS637 IS
641

Good Quality

Easiness5

Helpfulness5

Clarity4

Rater Interest4

Talks for the entire 2hours and 40min with no break. Interesting stuff if you have the attention span. Easy A. No weekly homework, midterm and final consist of T/F questions. Gives A's on final paper if you have required amount of pages. A little confusing on what he wants but trust me easy A if you have half a brain. No presentations! Yipee!!

7/16/05

telecom

Good Quality

Easiness1

Helpfulness4

Clarity5

Rater Interest4

If you want to achieve and put in the hard work and commitment, he will help you. What you learn is practical and stays with you.

1/28/05

IS654

Poor Quality

Easiness2

Helpfulness2

Clarity1

Rater Interest3

My Goodness this guy likes to hear himself talk. Why even bother showing up, if you fall asleep in front of him, he doesn't care! Ask him a question and he gets very defensive. He is brilliant, yet only in his own world. Nice guy though, fair grader.

10/25/04

cs654

Poor Quality

Easiness5

Helpfulness1

Clarity1

Rater Interest1

one of the worst professor I've seen in my life.

10/13/04

IS 637

Poor Quality

Easiness2

Helpfulness1

Clarity1

Rater Interest1

Horrible professor, mumbles and doesn't teach a thing. Senile, borring and useless. I can't have enought coffee for his class. Don't take him, you won't learn a thing since he jumps from one topic to another w/o explaining a thing!Books r useless,like him

2/13/04

csi

Good Quality

Easiness1

Helpfulness4

Clarity5

Rater Interest 

He's not an easy professor, but you will learn a lot! He gives many interesting examples. If you scan through the books you will get an A on the exam.

2/6/04

IS 637

Poor Quality

Easiness4

Helpfulness1

Clarity1

Rater Interest 

Don't walk out of that class....RUN!!! Just an all around BAD professor who gives teaching a bad name. Waste of time and money.

10/3/03

is 641

Poor Quality

Easiness1

Helpfulness1

Clarity1

Rater Interest 

save yourself! don't even bother.

3/19/03

IS641

Poor Quality

Easiness1

Helpfulness1

Clarity1

Rater Interest 

I implore you to drop this course if you in it now and DO NOT TAKE any classes that he teaches, believe me it will be the best decision you make in your life. Gives teaching a bad name!

2/13/03

IS641

Poor Quality

Easiness2

Helpfulness1

Clarity1

Rater Interest 

absolutely horrible, avoid at all cost if you can!!!

1/16/03

IS 637

Average Quality

Easiness4

Helpfulness5

Clarity1

Rater Interest 

Useless books not reflected in exams. Very boring, talks forever,not a teacher